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ek eee ee wWarch 14, 1950 OWEN LATTIMGRE Temporary Appointee Beonomic Affairs Division TMhited Nations att < Oe Owen Lattimore was born in Washington, D. C. on July 29, 1900. When he was ong year of age, he left for China with his parents and resided there until he was thirteen years of age when he was sent to Switzerland and England to complete his education. He returned to China in 1919 and engaged in newspaper work and business in Shanghai, Tientsin, and Pieping. He traveled extensively in China and Asia and did research work in Manchuria and Mongolia under grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Harvard ~ Yenching Inatitute and the Je S.» Guggenhein Wemorial Foundation. Y In 1933 he joined the staff of the Institute of Pacific Relations as editor of its journal "Pacific affairs*® and worked in | [that capacity in China and the United States until 1938 when he was ; appointed Director of the Walter Hines Page School of International of jRelations at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland. In July, ~s 19k1, he was appointed personal political adviser to Generalissiao 5 § Chiang Kai-Shek upon the recommendation of President Roosevelt. In _! 1942 he resigned that position to accept an appointment with the Mar | \ Eastern Department of the Office of War Information and on March 2h, (1945, was appointed as the Director of Pacific Operations for OWI. _lIn December, 194, he resigned from OWI to return to his work at Jobns ' Hopkins University, where he is currently exployed as Director of the + Walter Hines Page School of International Relations. U The October 30, 1945, issue of the "Baltimore Sun" reported that Lattinore had been appointed as Chief Economist of the Inited States Reparations Commission for Japan. U — It has been reported that Lattimore has been engaged as a consultant and adviser on Far Eastern Affeirs by various officials of the State Department, but inquiry by the Liaison Section of the State u 9 Bae 1 A eae ee * 3903 pexfct.*? - loo CTACT Rowen one Pr DATE Ce ses aa tener